Early Keyboard Instruments a Practical Guide

Rowland, David

ISBN 10: 0521643856 / ISBN 13: 9780521643856

Published by Cambridge University Press, UK, 2001

About this Item

Covers a wide range of performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to music from the 17th - 19th century. Describes harpsichords, clavichords, pianos and other stringed keyboard instruments, and aspects of technique such as harpsichord registration, piano pedalling and keyboard fingering. In Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music series. 154 pages; 6 x 9 ".

Seller Inventory # 17288

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Early Keyboard Instruments a Practical Guide
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, UK
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521643856
• ISBN 13: 9780521643856
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Musical Instruments

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Synopsis

Early Keyboard Instruments discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It brings together a range of topics that have come to the fore in recent decades and forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for the student performer or amateur, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.

Book Description

This title in the Historical Performance of Music series discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It brings together a range of topics that have come to the fore in recent decades and forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for the student performer or amateur, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.